favorite romantic movies / chick flicks?

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Sounds like we have the same wife. Chick flicks and Bourne Identity - who would have thought?

I'll ask Carole what her favourite movies are. For starters, I know she considers AVALON one of her all-time favourites, and she re-watches the (admittedly corny) RETURN TO ME over and over. (Embrace the sentiment, love the old guys and you'll be fine.)

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Interests:I was born in Iowa, but escaped at an early age. I grew up in a Christian family, was educated in a Christian school my Mom started and ran, and then went to Hamilton College at the age of 16. After getting a BA in Studio Arts, I went to work for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, where I served for ten years. In 2003, I left IV to get my MDiv at Gordon-Conwell Seminary. I married the lovely Karina in July of 1997, our son Timothy was born in June of 2002, and Evelyn was born in July of 2006. I now serve as the pastor of Trinity Alliance Church near Rochester, NY.

Sounds like we have the same wife. Chick flicks and Bourne Identity - who would have thought?

I'll ask Carole what her favourite movies are. For starters, I know she considers AVALON one of her all-time favourites, and she re-watches the (admittedly corny) RETURN TO ME over and over. (Embrace the sentiment, love the old guys and you'll be fine.)

Return to Me is great - strong, strong supporting cast. I think Romantic Comedies are all about the supporting cast. You already know what's going to happen to the leads.

“Return to Me” has an easygoing Catholic vibe akin, but not identical, to Golden Age Hollywood piety; in fact, the movie blends nostalgia and irreverence for the Catholic Hollywood of Bing Crosby’s era. Grace’s Irish grandfather Marty (Carroll O’Connor) recalls fondly that Crosby “made a lovely priest” (i.e., Father O’Malley in “Going My Way” in 1944, and “The Bells of St. Mary’s“), although another character counters that Crosby also “beat the hell out of his kids.”...

In the chapel, Marty and Megan light candles and pray. Marty invokes St. Michael the Archangel, admitting, “My wife never thought much of you, but you were always my favorite saint, because you’re a battler, you’re a fighter. Fight for us now, Michael. Fight for us.”

Hunt cuts back and forth between the chapel and the operating room, suggesting the power of prayer at work in the surgeons’ efforts. Then, at the scene’s climax, a closeup of a glowing votive candle fades to a heart monitor as the new heart begins beating on the soundtrack. It wouldn’t have been a heart transplant in a Crosby film, but it’s easy to imagine a similar “grace note” (so to speak) in a 1940s melodrama.

P.S. This thread was originally called "favorite romantic films?" In 2007 there was a much shorter thread called "Chick Flicks" (beginning with this post) which I have now rolled into this one.

Edited January 30, 2015 by SDG

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Basically, after reviewing a bunch of Internet lists of romantic movies and seeing the same (obvious) choices come up again and again, I decided to be intentionally obscure and pick only titles I didn't notice cropping up on other people's lists.

So no Jane Austen or Shakespeare. No Hepburn or Cary Grant, Meg Ryan or Tom Hanks. No Say Anything or Jerry Maguire, no City Lights or Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. Nothing against any of the above, but you don't need me to tout them. Instead, here are ten films you might not find on other lists of movie romances.